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The Watkins Review Announces Its Spiritual 100 List

The UK's Oldest Esoteric Institution Reveals the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM--(Marketwire - March 29, 2011) - The Watkins Review is pleased to announce its list of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People. The Spiritual 100 list ranks spiritual leaders and authors including the Dalai Lama (#2), Deepak Chopra (#5), Nelson Mandela (#19), the Pope (#34), and the best selling author Eckhart Tolle at #1. The spring issue features a full eleven pages highlighting each of these inspirational individuals.

The Watkins Review is sold and published by Watkins Books, England's oldest spiritual bookshop that has been trading for 118 years. The magazine is also available on the Apple App store world wide, except in China where it has been banned due to its praising the Dalai Lama.

Time Magazine publishes an annual list of the 100 people who most influence the world and Forbes publishes several lists including a rich list and Celebrity 100 list. The Watkins Review believes that an important list of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People is long overdue.

Watkins Review is proud to debut the Spiritual 100 list, and hopes that it will nurture the debates surrounding contemporary spirituality.

There are several factors that were taken into account when compiling the list. Listed below are the main three:

1) The person has to be alive

2) The person has to have made a unique and spiritual contribution on a global scale

3) The person is frequently googled, appears in Nielsen Data, and highlighted throughout the blogosphere

It's interesting to think about the amount of times that a person is googled; in a sense, being googled is a form of digital voting, and illustrates just how often someone is being sought out.

Summary of the Spiritual 100 List:

Male: 76% Female: 24%

Median Age: 67 years

The Oldest: 104 years (Kyozan Joshu Sasaki)

The Youngest: 30 years (Jeff Foster)

1. Eckhart Tolle

2. Dalai Lama

3. Dr Wayne W. Dyer

4. Thich Nhat Hanh

5. Deepak Chopra

6. Louise L. Hay

7. Paulo Coelho

8. Oprah Winfrey

9. Ken Wilber

10. Rhonda Byrne

11. James Redfield

12. Neale Donald Walsch

13. Doreen Virtue

14. Alejandro Jodorowsky

15. Richard Bach

16. Alex Grey

17. Byron Katie

18. Masaru Emoto

19. Nelson Mandela

20. Bernie Siegel

21. Caroline Myss

22. Brian Weiss

23. Mantak Chia

24. John Gray

25. Gregg Braden

26. Stephen R. Covey

27. Marianne Williamson

28. Desmond Tutu

29. Mata Amritanandamayi

30. Philip Berg

31. Ervin Laszlo

32. Andrew Harvey

33. Don Miguel Ruiz

34. Joseph Alois Ratzinger

35. Krishna Das

36. Drunvalo Melchizedek

37. Sai Baba

38. Jack Kornfield

39. Pema Chodron

40. T.K.V. Desikachar

41. Esther & Jerry Hicks

42. Dan Brown

43. Z'ev Ben Shimon Halevi

44. Diana Cooper

45. Ram Dass

46. Andrew Weil

47. Satya Narayan Goenka

48. Jon Kabat-Zinn

49. Alan Moore

50. Dan Millman

51. Bruce Lipton

52. Peter Kingsley

53. Karen Armstrong

54. Judy Hall

55. Colin Wilson

56. Joscelyn Godwin

57. James Lovelock

58. Satish Kumar

59. Shakti Gawain

60. Elaine Pagels

61. Kyozan Joshu Sasaki

62. Gary Zukav

63. Erich Von Daniken

64. David Deida

65. Oberto Airaudi 'Falcon'

66. Stuart Wilde

67. John Bradshaw

68. Jeff Foster

69. Patrick Holford

70. Andrew Cohen

71. Vladimir Megre

72. Thomas Cleary

73. Daniel Pinchbeck

74. Jonathan Goldman

75. Sonia Choquette

76. Seyyed Hossein Nasr

77. Mother Meera

78. Barefoot Doctor

79. Richard Bandler

80. Robert Bly

81. Adyashanti

82. Sogyal Rinpoche

83. Li Hongzhi

84. Sri Bhagavan

85. Rupert Sheldrake

86. John & Caitlin Matthews

87. Chogyal Namkhai Norbu

88. Kenneth Grant

89. Stanislav Grof

90. James Hillman

91. Clarissa Pinkola Estes

92. Stephen Levine

93. Candace Pert

94. Barbara Ann Brennan

95. Coleman Barks

96. Robert Thurman

97. B.K.S Iyengar

98. William Bloom

99. Lynne McTaggart

100. Marion Woodman

Watkins Books was established in 1893 in London, and is the UK's oldest and largest independent esoteric bookshop. www.watkinsbooks.com.